foredream

foredream

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ dream.

Noun

foredream (plural foredreams)

1. a dream dreamt in advance, especially regarding a future condition or event; a hopeful expectation; a hope
   • 1833, The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Parochial History, and Documents Respecting the State of the Poor, Progress of Education, &c, Volume 4:

     […] with its impressive motto, were all subservient to that grave and visioned mood in which the moral thought of this life, and foredream of the next, steal with a luxurious melancholy over the heart.

   • 2010, Alison Croggon, The Riddle: The Second Book of Pellinor:

     She remembered her terrible foredream of the sack of Turbansk and felt a suffocating despair rising in her breast.

   • 2013, Wendell Berry, This Day: New and Collected Sabbath Poems 1979 - 2012:

     We piece a foredream of the gathered light Infinitely small and great to shelter all, […]

Verb

foredream (third-person singular simple present foredreams, present participle foredreaming, simple past and past participle foredreamed or foredreamt)

1. (transitive) to dream beforehand, especially as a premonition
   • 1899, Francis Marion Crawford, Via crucis: a romance of the second crusade:

     She had used the only means, and the strongest means, of bringing Gilbert back to France; she had foredreamt his coming, she had foreknown that from the first he would ask for Beatrix; […]

   • 1964, Jacob Trapp, Modern religious poems, a contemporary anthology:

     Foredreaming the faith of the future, He knew and preached the truth: […]

   • 1996, Robert Alan Segal, Psychology and Myth:

     With regard to dreams, there is one interesting fact to be noted here: the belief, namely, that in prophetic dreams of death it will always be a veyola (real kinsman), usually the sister's son, who will foredream his uncle's death.

   • 2013, George Gissing, Delphi Complete Works of George Gissing (Illustrated):

     […] but the marriage of Basil with a Goth, his renunciation of Catholicism, and with it the Imperial cause, were greater things, and together with their attainment she foredreamt the greatest of all, Totila's complete conquest of Italy.

Anagrams

• forearmed, reformade